Next up, the Department of Education
Homeland Security and the TSA duplicate the Coastguard.
The GOP won’t go for this. They love big government just as much as the Democrats do.
The GOP won’t even defund PBS for crying out loud so there’s no hope that they will eliminate any federal agencies. They will side with the bureaucrats and the Democrats, not Trump.
Oh NO!!!!! Without OPM who will decide whether or not Federal government offices in Washington, DC will be open or closed whenever it snows during the winter?
We heard since the 80s calls to eliminate the Department of Education without clear reason why, improvement, money savings, etc. No surprise it failed. The only success was hack politicians getting votes and elected for promoting unserious proposals.
Whack it, tag it, sack it.
Just consolidating all the programs and eliminating redundant bureaucracy would probably save a hundred billion dollars.
Requiring a "Real ID" (with biometric ID) in order to apply for benefits would probably save another hundred billion by excluding fraud, ineligibles, and illegals.
Once consolidated, institute a cap on how much total aid any household is allowed to get.
Each department & agency ought to be able to handle its own hiring & staff career management. So I think this is a good move. OPM was not an improvement over the Civil Service Commission. Its been a consistent and stupid myth that one size hire fits all government positions.
I would rather disperse them throughout the USA.
Excellent. Abolish the Dept. of Education Jimmy Crater started next.
So it's not really shrinking government--it's just redistributing it.
A *little* progress, but not as much as I was hoping for in a first step.
No reduction - just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.
Govt needs to get totally out of the mortgage and student loan industries. Freddie and Fanny need euthanizing.
OPM is the agency that essentially makes it impossible to FIRE a Federal employee.
Good. Very good.
Spread the alphabet agencies in Fargo, Duluth and Rochester.
0bama’s CTO and CIO thought a splash screen telling potential intruders, “Please don’t go beyond this point if you don’t have permission” was good enough to keep hackers away.
I rather think all evidence out of 0’s time was to undermine EVERYTHING POSSIBLE of our country.
It’s the only consistent answer to the endless string of abuses. They were never true “accidents.”
It is about bloody time!!!
I can quickly come up with a list of departments that I would close before OPM.